Sunday, July 31, 2011

How to get marginal effects with "mvrs"

I found this very helpful post by Ryan sometime ago about how to get marginal effect from estimated models with "mvrs" command, very helpful.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Stata 12

There are two things I like Stata 12 most: (1) automatic memory management, and (2) a decent program editor for Linux (I know the editor has been available on the Windows platform since version 11, but I am a Linux person). The updated "margin" commands also look good.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Dong MCMC using Rcpp

Here is an interesting example.

Friday, July 08, 2011

OpenGeoDa

The Linux version of the OpenGeoDa seems to be more stable than the Windows version: I was able to open some shape files with Chinese file names under Ubuntu Linux but not under Windows 7 (simply crashed).

Updated on August 18. 2011: 

Now the problem is that OpenGeoDa does not seem to run on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit: no error messages and no hints, really weird...

Mint Linux Debian edition

It is highly regarded here, and may provide a way from Ubuntu to Debian.

Here is another positive review.

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Gnome 3 looks nice

I tweaked my ubuntu 11.04 and replaced the default window manager with Gnome 3. It took a while to get used to it but eventually I like it a lot. I think part of the reason ubuntu is turning to unity instead of the old gnome2 is that the new gnome represents such a drastic shift away from the old gnome2, which is no longer under active development.

The overall experience is positive. I expect the next release will get rid of the few annoyance such as the lack of easy-to-use configuration tool to tweak things like screensaver, sound, etc.

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